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RESTRAINING ORDER. Receivers Appointed for the Western Farm Mortgage and Trust Company. LAWRENCE (Kans.) Feb. 6.-Judge Shaw of Leavenworth, attorney for Abraham S. Brewer, and Charles Biddle of Pennsylvania and other stockholders, filed a suit in the District Court to-day against the Westein Farm Mortgage and Trust Company and the American Real-estate Trust Company of Denver, asking that they be restrained from disposing of their assets. The petition alleges that the officers of the various companies are manipulating business to the disadvantage of the stockholders. A temporary restraining order was issued by the court. This suit is brought In view of attachments sued| out against the Western Farm Mortgage Company at Denver yesterday. DENVER, Feb. -The District Court this afternoon appointed G. W. E. Griffith receiver for the Western Farm Mortgage and Trust Company. The officers of the company say the embarrassment is only temporary. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. - -The Western Farm Mortgage and Trust Company, which became embarrassed at Denver, has an office at 40 Wall street, in this city, where William T. Pratt has acted as manager for several years past. A few days ago the Sheriff received an execution against the company for $25,000 in favor of the Western National Bank on promissory notes of the San Luis Land and Water Company, which the trust company indorsed. When a Deputy Sheriff went to make the levy Pratt declared that the trust company had no property whatever in New York County, and that the office furniture and fixtures belonged to him, 80 there was nothing to attach. Eastern stockholders have been clamorous for some time past, as the dividends were passed lastyear, but the officials declared that they had changed the plan of paying interest and would not pay it until the interest on the mortgages had been collected. Last fall the company issued a statement of condition on June 30, 1891, which claims assets of $4,273,333 and liabilities of $2,539,817, exclusive of capital stock, $1,500,000, and/surplus and undivided profits of $233,821. The largest liabilities were $1,402,966 for debentures certified, $546,111 on bills payable and $3,796,078 on undivided deposits. The assets included real estate securities of $1,479,833, mortgages deposited as security for debentures. $1,726,328, and municipal and other stocks and bonds amounting to $608,974.
